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Show Greed Rules Food Policy 4 Says Farm Leader Urging farmers and labor to get together to combat the "stampede "stam-pede back toward scarcity in the post-war period," James G. Pat-ton, Pat-ton, president of the National Farmers Union, says that "blind, greedy selfishness rules our food policy." The farmers' organization, headed by Mr. Patton, does not see eye-to-eye with the American Farm Bureau Federation, or the National Grange. It is generally considered to be more representative represen-tative of the rank and file of agriculture ag-riculture and its policies have been directed toward the interest of the. small farmer and agricultural agricul-tural worker. Mr. Patton asserts that the "bare-cupboard" policy toward food is demanded by the "selfish people in agriculture, who don't want anything left over when the war ends so they can get exorbitant exorbi-tant prices for a scarcity of products." pro-ducts." Denouncing the , cotton textile amendment to the Price Control bill as 'an insult to the intelligence intelli-gence of Congress," which would add $7 to $10 a year to the cost-of-living of every family, Mr. Patton wonders what "privileged FT " 1 1 1 1 i.ii im ! in ipni i interests" will win when the war ends if one industry can win "this sort of special favoritism and concession" in war-time. Victory Day, he adds, must not be celebrated "by solemnly removing re-moving the seat of government back from Washington to Wall Street." He warns against turning turn-ing the country back to the "business "bus-iness as usual" boys in a "disastrous "disas-trous retreat toward a so-called normalcy.' " |